Introducing Windows Azure- P62 pdf

Select Hosted Services after you have signed in from the Azure portal, as Figure 9-7 shows.. Select the Hosted Services from the portal to deploy an application to the cloud... Enter a n

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Deploying Cloud Applications

Now let’s see how to deploy a cloud application

1 Select Hosted Services after you have signed in from the Azure portal, as Figure 9-7 shows

Figure 9-7 Select the Hosted Services from the portal to deploy an application to the cloud

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2 Enter a name for the application that will be hosted from the cloud The

maximum length of the name that can be entered is 20 characters, and the name should be unique, as Figure 9-8 shows

Characters more than

20 will be truncated

Figure 9-8 Verify the available name for the application name

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Staging Deployment

Staging deployment (shown in Figure 9-9) is the step where an application runs in pre-production In

this status the application should be fully functional This provides an opportunity for you to do testing and final tuning in the remote cloud environment If the application has never been deployed before,

then when the Deploy button is pressed the application will be given Staging status and should be fully functional Revisit this page after testing and deploy the application from Staging to Production as

Figure 9-13 shows

Figure 9-9 Staging deployment is one step before an application is hosted in production

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Select the Application Package and Configuration Package

At this step you need to provide the path for both the compiled package file and the configuration package file, as Figure 9-10 shows

Figure 9-10 Select the application package and configuration package file for deployment

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Running a Hosted Application

Figure 9-11 shows that a web role is running from the cloud Double-click on the URL to access the

service provided by that web role

Figure 9-11 An example of a web role hosted and run from the cloud